Ball bearing for shafts



' July l, 1930. J. FxEux kBLL BEARNG FOR SHAFTS Filed Sept. 17, 1928 Patented Julyv 1930 UNITED y sTA'rE's4 PATENT OFFICE JEAN FIRUX, Aor' rARIs, FRANCE, AssIGNoR or ONE-HALE 'ro SCHNEIDER a CIE., or

PARIS, FRANCE', A LIMITED JoINfr s'rocx COMPANY or FRANCE .BALL BEARING FOR SHFTS Application filed. September I7-, 1928, Serial No. 36,575, and in France October 3, 1927.

The present invention relates to means f enabling juxtaposed roller bearings to be constructed-for heavily loadedshafts, and

more particularly for the rotors of antirolling vgyroscopes.

. It is' known that, notwithstanding the care taken in the manufacture of ball and roller bearings, the rolling paths of the race often present an eccentricity of several hundredths 10 of a millimetre. From this there results the wellknown difficulty-experienced in constructing bearings with a plurality of roller paths with a view to distributing the load in a suitable manner. This difliculty is generally evaded by merely utilizingl two roller paths mounted on the same trunnion ata certain distance.

apart and resting` the same sleeve, the latter being capable of oscillating in the 2o body of the bearing. This arrangement,-

however, leads to a weight and size which are not always acceptable.` Moreover, when several roller -paths are juxtaposed 'they only present a comparatively small -total radiation surface and can only' give up theirl heat by conduction. Naturalc'ooling thereof is liable to be insufiicientand may compromise the durability of the bearing.

To sum up, a

3o double obstacle is met with in Iutilizing a plurality of juxtaposed rollerbearings if an attempt is made to construct in practice abearing with multiple roller paths.. L According to the present inventionths double diiiculty'is overcome by the followl-ing means: The external races of the juxtaposed rol1 er bearings each rest, through the medium of a cell or socketandl of slide shoes appropriate thereto, upon a common bearer, con# sisting of plastic and practically incompressible material, such as india rubber,'for example. This material being enclosed on. all sides acts like a liquidunder pressure. "It opposes and suitably distributes reaction between the shoes of the cells, Whatever may be the movements of the latter, which is com-v parable to that of an eccentric. To the device for `compensating 8, the cheeks and 7 an which are adjacent to one'another but can tribute the oil, which is brought by a lubricator to. the entrance of the bearing, the

cooling and lubricationJof the various parts bemg thus ensured simultaneously and 1n a rational manner.

panying drawings as applied by Way of example to an anti-rolling gyroscope bearing. Figure 1 is an' end View of the bearing. Figure 2 is ,an axial section in the plane of the heaviest loads 'that is to say, on line 2--2 in Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a transverse section on the'line 3 3 in Figure 2, and,

Figure 4 is an axial section on a plane perpendicular to the plane of section of The invention is illustrated in the accom-i Figure 2, that is to say on. the line-4 4 in Figure 1.

- On a shaft 1 aremounted and gripped firmly one against the other a Ventilating wheel 2 and the inner races of the roller bearings 3, 4 and' of which the outer raccs are held without being gripped between 'cheeks 'and 7 of the bearing 8, which are virtually integral with the gear casing 9.

The louter races of the bearings are lodged in cells 10 which are provided With flat faces diametrically oppositeto one another, by

. which the said cells make Contact with shoes 11, which in their turn bear upon a'plastic material 12 forming a bearer common to each group of shoes'.

This material, which may be vulcanized' ,india-rubber, is contained in a cavity exivclosed on all sides by the bod of the bearing the shoes 11 shift freely in relation to one another within the framefof the.cavity receiving the plastic bearer. 'f

The cell o f theouterrace of the bearing' l carries two supplementary flats perpendicular to the former by which it is guided between slippers 13 fixedto the body o1 the.

bearing. The cells of the outer races of the.-

roller aths Band 4 on' the contrary, not being their shoes.

The body 8 and the cheeks 6 and 7 .of thev bearing comprise orifices vfor the passage of the cooling air discharged from the casingA 9 by a deflector 14. A drip lubricator 15 is .laced` at the'entrance of the bearing., The

ubricant is carried by the4 air across the roller paths. V

I claim: 1. In amulti le roller-bearing, the combination of a' p urality .of inner 4and outer races, annular mountings for the outer races l rovided with diametrically opposite flat aces, slide shoes contacting with each of said dat faces, two bodies of incompressible plastic material one on either side and:

against which said slide shoes rest, and means com letely confining said bodies of incom ressi le material. f

-2. n-a multiple roller bearing, a bearing casing comprisin an annular shell and o positely dlspose Yend members, ,multip e pairsofinn'er and outer races withinsaid casing, independent juxtaposed cells within which the outer races are mounted, and two diametrically opposed independent bodies of incompressible plastic material confined within the casing and between the Acasing and said cells. .y 4

3. In' a multiple roller bearing, the combination of a. casing, two independentA bodies of diametrically opposed incompressible plastic material confined therein, a plurality of independent cells supported between said. two bodies, an outer race carried by each' ofsaidcells, and an inner race correspondlng to each outerrace.

4.111 a multiplevroller bearing, the com- I bination of a bearing casing comprisingl an annular. shell having an exit port, multiple pairs of inner and'outer races supported in saidj casing, independent juxtaposed cellsv within'which. the outer races are mounted,'two diametrically opposed independent bodies of incompressible plastic materialv confined within the casing and 'between the shell ofthe casing and said cells, and two oppositely ldisposed -end closuresl for said casln one4 of said end closures having a `l specification. l

port eading into -the space betwen the inner 'and outer' raceways and the other end elo'- .vsure having a channel connecting saidV Space with the exit port of said casing, whereby saidbearing may be lubricated.

In testimony whereof I have signed this JEAN eld.1atera1ly, can slide freely over 

